ok so after a brief (hah) intermission, the ryno is back on his feet.

Friday, January 7, 2005 - 4:30 AM:

As i sit in my chair, cutting guitar pics out of used gift cards and sanding down the edges with my mom's nail file, i think to myself..."there's gotta be a better way to pass the time."

Nothing is worse than being struck with insomnia and having nothing to do.

I look up at my wall and see Maraconi, my inflatable moose head, mounted proudly on my wall. I got it at a white elephant gift exchange at my girlfriend's house this past christmas.

I'm not sure how it happened, but something about that moose head sent my mind racing down a mental rabbit trail of seemingly unrelated thoughts, that ended in me saying to myself "hey, i think i'll make a self portrait!!"

In the past few months, i hadn't drawn much of anything other than random doodles on scraps of church bulletins...i was expecting some kind of napoleon dynamite-esque crap portrait that would end up being tossed in the trash...but the longer my pencil scratched the surface of that paper 'canvas,' the more swept away i became in my art.

Two hours and 3 portraits later, i found myself standing back to look at my work, which was spread all across the floor of my room. each work had its own distinctive style, its own story.

-ryno